Nuthouse Episode

About the Book

This collection of poems, written in psychiatric hospitals, tells about the experience of mental patients. Isolation, injections, a strict environment of raw laws and struggles with mental illness. Addictions and the love for a woman who gives meaning to the madness. The philosophy of psychoneurosis to search for details of the fabric of the universe and golden eternity. Love and desire, human contact, queer heritage, and the question of identity. Importance is in the presence of the city of Bristol and the city legends present in some poems. The city is personalized and connected with the poet’s sense of identity.

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